Fulfilled Israel according to Matthew's Plerosis Paradigm (PDF)

What is Matthean fulfillment (pl?r?sis)? According to a triplex via of fundamental continuity, radical discontinuity, and transcendence-completion, it is the process of Christification by which those in communion with Christ become agents of his theandric activity. In light of this paradigm, the divine 'with-ness' which Christ brings his people is more profoundly appreciated. The fullness which God's covenant people enjoy via communion with Christ is nothing less than the very fullness of God: they participate in his life and love, power and providence, righteousness and perfection, virtue and glory, identity and mission. In this monograph, Andrew D. Dalton argues that pl?r?sis is an ongoing and ever deepening process of deification: in and through the King of kings, God has filled inaugurally, is filling perpetually, and will fill consummately his church-kingdom Israel with his own divine fullness.

Born 1981; 2001 entered the Legionaries of Christ; 2006 BA Philosophy; 2012 BA Theology; 2012 ordained a Catholic priest; 2016 STL Biblical Theology; 2022 STD Theology; Visiting Professor, Science and Faith Institute, Post-graduate Certificate in Shroud Studies; Visiting Professor, Higher Institute for Religious Sciences; Professore Incaricato, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Faculty of Theology.